Quotes About Learning

It's good for you to be a bit uncomfortable from time to time, especially if you're only a few steps away from relief. People forget about the value of adversity.

There's always hope when a kid—or an adult, for that matter—likes to read.

I could still taste and smell and hear and see," she said. "I could still learn and I could still teach. I could still love and be loved. I had my mind and my spirit. And I had you.

There's nothing like getting in trouble to make you feel young.

Life has its way, and it seems to me now that the object might only be to learn how to be graceful, to understand the value of a deep kind of acceptance.

too. So you see that all my big mistake did was to make for a better party because that's how mistakes are, they make for a kind of relaxation, at least on the part of those not making them.

They say that one of the reasons for tragedy is that you learn important lessons from it.

We can't help but make mistakes. The important thing is to keep trying. And to apologize when you need to.

I feel so lucky at being able to do what I love. Writing has proved to be a fascinating journey – without maps and compass at times – but it is one where I am continually learning.

Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in dark tunnels.

He who teaches the Bible is never a scholar; he is always a student.

The ability to discern truth comes from learning, growing, and understanding the Bible.

The key is putting into practice what God has taught you through His Word.

Dear me, how I love a library.

With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment at the airport when I would stand there waiting for him to arrive, wondering, Will I still know him? Will he still know me?

Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.

And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?

I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?

You don't need to conduct autopsies on your disasters.

We are all just beginners here, and we shall all die beginners.

A parent is inexcusable who does not personally teach her child to think.

But why must everything have a practical application? I'd been such a diligent soldier for years - working, producing, never missing a deadline, taking care of my loved ones, my gums and my credit record, voting, etc. Is this lifetime supposed to be only about duty? In this dark period of loss, did I need any justification for learning Italian other than that it was the only thing I could imagine bringing me any pleasure right now?

Whatever you do, try not to dwell too long on your failures. You don't need to conduct autopsies on your disasters.

She wanted to understand the world, and she made a habit of chasing down information to its last hiding place, as though the fate of nations were at stake in every instance.